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Two broadbands one house?

Eveesuk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:24:58 GMT

Hi I wondered if anyone could answer my query, my home has two families living in the one property, sister and husband one side, in an extention and me, my son and mother in the other. My sister has bt broadband and then we run a cable through to our side and share the Internet cost. My question is whether I would be able to have sky broadband in my side and them still keep their bt on theirs. Is this possible?any thanks x

Re: Two broadbands one house?

mormegil — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:41:38 GMT

Is the extension a full separate and registered property or just a unofficial devision?

Re: Two broadbands one house?

Chrisee — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:57:30 GMT

@Eveesuk you can have two broadband services to the same property but it normally requires a second line. Most properties still using a copper phone line usually have a second unused cable pair that Openreach can normally use. If you are on full fibre it is normally possible to have a second service although the ONT needs replacing. So technically it can probably be done. At one point I had two services one for domestic use and a second for work.

For different reasons Sky wont allow two accounts at one street address so any second service would have to use a different ISP. Also if ordering make it clear that a new line is required and dont be too surprised if there is an installation cost.

Re: Two broadbands one house?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:21:07 GMT

@Eveesuk

And when ordering you must be very clear that this is a second line with an additional broadband service and not a 'switch', because by default the original provision would cease.

Re: Two broadbands one house?

cuke — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:48:59 GMT

@Eveesuk wrote:
Hi I wondered if anyone could answer my query, my home has two families living in the one property, sister and husband one side, in an extention and me, my son and mother in the other. My sister has bt broadband and then we run a cable through to our side and share the Internet cost. My question is whether I would be able to have sky broadband in my side and them still keep their bt on theirs. Is this possible?any thanks x

Yes I have one 150Mbps fibre connection to our property with Sky and another with Quickline which is 1Gbps. The deal with Quickline is free until our Sky contract ends, which is September 2026.

Thus have retained the Sky Hub only so we still use Sky Talk, with it's WiFi turned off, so we can use the WiFi 6 of the Quickline one, but will install my own tri-band router when I get around to it.

Re: Two broadbands one house?

Skull+Treaty — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:20:48 GMT

@Eveesuk wrote:
Hi I wondered if anyone could answer my query, my home has two families living in the one property, sister and husband one side, in an extention and me, my son and mother in the other. My sister has bt broadband and then we run a cable through to our side and share the Internet cost. My question is whether I would be able to have sky broadband in my side and them still keep their bt on theirs. Is this possible?any thanks x

@Eveesuk

Possible, yes. I have BT FTTP and City Fibre FTTP into the property. I echo the other advice you've been given.

Re: Two broadbands one house?

Eveesuk — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 08:23:43 GMT

Thank you everyone for your replies much appreciated x